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DNF Bookstore: A Shared World

by Misty Walker

From USA Today bestselling author Misty Walker comes the cringiest book you ever did read.

Eaton Beavers never imagined that he would stumble upon the love of his life in a cozy, dimly lit used bookstore on a mundane weekday. But the moment his gaze landed on Jenny Tayla, he knew deep within his bone that she was the one.

Her physique was a work of art. Her thick, shapely thighs, hips that curved just so, and ample bosom left him breathless. And lord almighty, when she smiled, it was as if the sun itself had taken residence in her features, casting a radiant glow that could light up even the darkest night sky. In that fleeting moment, Eaton knew without a doubt that this woman was meant for him.

All he has to do now is convince her.

Jenny Tayla is an entrepreneur of. . . how could she put it? Fake nizzle drizzle? White honey? Trouser gravy?

Semen. She is a maker of fake but edible semen and proud of it, even if her profession comes with a price. She’s single and lonely, constantly rejected by men who find her fascination with the white substance repulsive. Sigh.

That is until a dreamboat of a man catches her drooling over the cover of a steamy romance novel at her favorite used bookstore, DNF.

Eaton Beavers is everything she could charming, handsome, and funny. Most importantly, he shares her appetite for indulging in her unique passion.

But their happy ending is threatened by Jenny’s ex-boyfriend Daniel, an investor in her company who still harbors possessive feelings towards her. With misguided determination, he sets off to destroy her man chowder business and her one chance at true love.


*DNF is a beloved used bookstore in Salem, Massachusetts, where books go for a second chance. What was once someone's DNF is the next person's treasure. Every book in the DNF series is full of delicious spice, chaos, and most importantly, cringe .
We're giving you all the moist, velvet-wrapped man meats, and so much more!
How far can you make it before you cringe?
How many novellas can you read before you DNF?
It's a challenge.
Read. Cringe. Share.
Do you dare to enter the world of DNF? There's no guarantee you'll finish .

Genres: Novella, Romance, Smut, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance

126 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 9, 2024

About the author

Misty Walker is a romance author with books in multiple subgenres, including gay, biker, and contemporary.

She's been in the book and audiobook industry for many years, though she's only been publishing since 2019.

Misty currently resides in the high desert of Reno, NV with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys camping in her comfy travel trailer, reading, and writing.

Book Titles:
Vindicated
Conversion
Bohemian Law (Traveler Series, book 1)
Bohemian Mark (Traveler Series, book 2)
Bohemian Patience (Traveler Series, book 3)
Cop-Out (An Everyday Heroes World Novel)
Birdie's Biker (RBMC: Reno, NV, book 1)
Truly's Biker (RBMC: Reno, NV, book 2)
Kian's Focus (Brigs Ferry Bay, book 2)
Adler's Hart (Brigs Ferry Bay, book 2.5)
Leif's Serenity (Brigs Ferry Bay, book 4)

Reviews

[Izzah ꒰Duchess of Cabria ಇ ⭑✧ ᴏɴ ᴘᴀᴛʀᴇᴏɴ ✧ ⋆꒱ · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF series challenge, review series

I'm reading the DNF series books because... I don't know. I hate myself? I'm not going to rate them because it's too subjective, but I am going to rank them from favorite to least favorite.

📖 ༘⋆⸝ ⸝ My thoughts
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[Karm Barter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot stop laughing. That had to be the funniest book ever. Imagine every single cringy term you can think of for eggplants and tacos and Walker has it but in a hilarious way. Spice was great as always. Walker is a gem!

Hawk Tuah!!

[Grapie Deltaco]

Blegh

[CrazyGal609 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another amusing book ❤️ Love Grandpa and his warning to Eaton!
I really enjoyed it, I even felt a little angst for her, but loved his bulldozing way of saving/helping her❤️ As for their kink ⭐️To Each Their Own⭐️ of course!! Honestly, I’ve been LMAO, it’s going into the keeper pile!!

I am absolutely sharing this with my friends “my love liquor” (his cum…lol) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and loving it when he “smacked her love muffin” with his “batter beater” 🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃
🔥🔥🔥WoW, Easton is great with his dirty talk🥵💋😈 and Jenny’s imagination is pretty Wicked💚🖤 I’m loving these two❣️❣️
The D for Daniel must be Douchebag Daniel, right😉

😂 “Would you mind if I drove?” I ask.
She eyes me skeptically. “You’re not going to abduct me and chop me up into a million pieces that you’ll feed to the pigs on your pig farm, are you? Because I really don’t want to become pig poop.”
I blink. Then blink again. “I don’t own pigs or a farm.”🐷

Note to self- check the 🎧🎶playlist 😉 from front of book
Listen Along: https://spoti.fi/4bXOPQt
“Please, Please, Please” by Sabrina Carpenter
“Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish
“The Bolter” by Taylor Swift
“My Kink is Karma” by Chappell Roan
“Cream” by Prince
“Marry You” by Bruno Mars
“Wait (The Whisper Song)” by Ying Yang Twins
“Milkshake” by Kelis
“Sofia” by Clairo
“Crush” by Tessa Violet
“Sunkissed” by khai dreams
“Cloud 9” by Beach Bunny
“moon and back” by JVKE
“Cupid Twin Version (sped up)” by Music Factory

[Adrienne Klassen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Out of all the cringy DNF books I've read, this was the worst. And not for the reasons you think. I absolutely hated the MMC, Eaton, in this book. He was so toxic, pushy, manipulative, and awful! He didn't give Jenny any choices. He gave her the illusion of having a choice but never took her actual opinion. The relationship was very toxic, all wrapped up in a cute little bow of being supportive and in love.

I realize this is just a book, fiction, but it just made me feel icky. And that had nothing to do with the sex. That was really the only thing I liked about this book. Thus, I've given it two stars. I basically finished this book out of spite. And the fact is was only a little over 100 pages.

[kay reads]

Dnf at 45%

Not bc of the cringe but bc I hated Eaton's character.

[Agnes Silfverswärd · Rating 1 out of 5]

The stupidest woman alive and a man who can’t take no for an answer. What could go wrong?

[Alex · Rating 1 out of 5]

”Cum dumpster” showing up right after I mentioned it being the worst insult a classmate could think of was by far the best thing with this book.

[Becky Rowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cringe📈🤣

(Book 3/12 DNF Challenge)

[Leigh Anne]

Oooof. The cringiest part of this book was how overbearing the MMC was. He continually ignored her requests in order to get what he wanted 🤬

[Camilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️ | ARC review

Not as cringy as some of the others in the book, and I found myself a little bored. Many fun elements though, and if you like books with many a description of "man juice", this might be for you. Also, slow clap for the main characters names: Jenny Talya and Eaton Beavers. 👏👏

🍌 instalove
🍌 love for creamy love liquor
🍌 drama with the ex
🍌 we love a girl boss

[Notyourmomsshelf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well the reviews on this made me think, hey maybe I just started this entire thing with the wrong one. and this could be better! I was wrong. I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum at all. But this was a new kink (& activities to fulfill that kink) that I never knew existed? (Maybe I just didn't know the name for it?) However! It's redemption? It had a full beginning, conflict, and resolution that actually made some sense. The MMC really tried to make things and life easier for the FMC. This was the final throw my hands up and be done though. I could not keep going in this challenge.

[Sharie Barker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oooooof, the cringe was up there. Insta-love is normally a kindle thrower for me ... so this took some effort to get through. Add on the fact that "man batter" when it's played with gives me the worst ick ever, and you can see my struggles with this book 😂 amazing writing though and had me giggling!

[Bethie_books · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5 stars

Some of the other books in the series have been more cringy. While I was ok with the direction this book took, I wasn't super invested in this book like I was with the others. Maybe it was just me...

Thank you to the author for an ARC.

[Bookbun8 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Too cute and not cringy at all! 😍

Their story was so cute! I really liked their instalove and how perfect they were for each other.

Also, I kind of like her business idea. I mean she's not wrong, people do that all the time. Why should it be considered taboo? 😂

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a part of the DNF (do not finish) series that is created to be as cringe as possible so you don’t finish.

Ok this one was like half serious so took me longer to finish because wasn’t cringing as hard. I mean, the overall smut parts were of course cringe 🤢

[Rachel]

I picked this because it was the highest rated of the DNF series. This wasn't that bad, I've ready other books with some similarly written things...and some lines actually made me laugh out loud, if you want to be entertained and don't take it seriously you will at least laugh a little. There is some cringe, but it wasn't bad enough to DNF.

[Sarah~Book Obsession Confessions · Rating 5 out of 5]

So cringe, so funny and clever. It’s a fun, fast read that’s sure to make you say “ICK!” I love the cringeworthy descriptions and words. It takes a lot of creativity to make that all “come together” ;)

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't stop laughing!

The character names alone had me laughing so dang hard. The shenanigans these two kept getting in to was so funny, yet a bit relatable. If you're looking for an amazing book with some hilarious yet cringy names for body parts, then this is the book for you! Seriously, a must read!

[Angel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. I still have nine to go, but I’m a stubborn asshole who hates DNFing so let’s go.

[Ells · Rating 4 out of 5]

So cringe it was awful? Yeah, but that was the point sooooo

[nik drake · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why.

[Greta V · Rating 3 out of 5]

The DNF series challenge.

This series is specifically designed to be cringey. Cringey enough to make you want to DNF.

This one really wasn’t terrible! Certainly wasn’t good, but at times I forgot I was reading the DNF series.

[Ellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

“take a long walk off a short pier” & “clam hammer” made me cackle. Cringe ofc but that was expected.

[Laura van Gerven · Rating 1 out of 5]

wat heb ik net gelezen?? heeeeel gek weer dit 😭😭😭 im just gonna unsee that real quick

[Zoey Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

him making a custom ring with his jizz in it was all I needed to know about this book

[Cat · Rating 1 out of 5]

What the actual fuck. Why do I keep doing this to myself. I do hate myself but that's another level of hate

[Madison Outlaw · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay the names in this book made me cackle like a 12 year old, so I’ll give it a star.

[elika lor. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually really enjoyed Walker’s writing style and felt this book had actual plot with actual characters you can get to know. It made the reading experience very enjoyable for a book that was supposed to be cringe, and at some parts of course it was. But I did actually enjoy this one lol

I do think Jenny and Eaton need to work on their communication skills (to be fair, they knew each other for like two days) but I liked their characters. I liked that Jenny still had spark to her and didn’t let a man control her, and she had depth, with her trauma. She was a diva, and Eaton was just super kind even if he was a bit much at times (but he didn’t know that what he was doing was a bit much until later and Jenny placed boundaries, which he respected.) They’re cutesie.

I was curious to know if what was touched on is actually true, regarding how some men may not like this specific kink. It was very interesting to me, and I thought Jenny’s business was something that I’ve also known of its existence. Either for people like Jenny, or for people that need it because they don’t produce any of their own, etc. It made me connect to the story actually a lot easier instead of it just being a cringe blob of nothing lol

One thing I will never forget however is that I read ‘hawk tuah’ at one point😂I’m surprised I haven’t seen it in any of the other DNF series books lol.

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“Any man who has made her feel anything except desirable knowing she gets off on bathing in spunk should have his man card taken away. Never have sexier words been spoken to me, and I might spontaneously combust if I don’t get the chance to explore this kink with her soon.” (Eaton)

“She obeys, and I come to terms with the fact that I’m probably going to nut in my boxers because the aight before me is stuff wars are fought over.” (Eaton)

[Ro Chelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

¸,ø¤`°๑۩DNF Series Reviews۩๑°`¤ø,¸

Part 8…it’s been a while but we’re back to our regular scheduled DNF viewing.

I’ve had to get inventive so I don’t get banned…
The story follows Jenny Talya (*insert silent giggled here) who is trying to start her own business selling artificial man milk called “I Can’t Believe It’s Not J-can’t write that here-izz…enter Eaton Beaver (*snort*) son of Ima Beaver and Seymour Beaver (*wheezes) and owner of an indestructible furniture business. When he finds out she’s into being painted like the Mona Lisa, he realises he’s found the girl of his dreams.

This was actually the least cringey off all of these books probably because I found her “special interest” actually not that special. I read too much dark romance clearly. But still from now on I think we should just refer to our respective gardens as their scientific parts because some of these are diabolical!

𝕌𝕟𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕊𝕚𝕟𝕤
•”clam hammer” there will be no tools in the bedroom today!
•”munch her meat” all I can think about is pickled onion monster munch and I don’t know why.
•”stick a fork in me, I’m done” not unforgivable but it absolutely made me laugh.
•”pinprick hole spurting like a fountain”
•”batter beater” that just sounds violent and unnecessary

Overall, it was cringey just not in the same shudder inducing way as the others.
Rating: 🍌🍌